Toby Muhlhofer wrote:
Hi, all,
I was wondering: which user runs the init scripts at boot time in fc5?
The reason I ask is because I have the following issue. In my
/etc/fstab, I have a cifs filesystem, for which I use a credentials
file. For security reasons I would like to set permissions/ownership on
this file so only root can read it. In fc4, this filesystem would be
mounted with no problems. In fc5, I get an error message
can't open <path-to-file>
The behavior is the same whether I put a line for the filesystem into
/etc/fstab or I put a line
mount -t cifs <...> -o credentials=<path-to-file>
into rc.local.
Either used to work in fc4, neither works in fc5. If I make the
credentials file world-readable, it works, but I don't want to do that
for security reasons.
So my guess is, I would need to transfer ownership of the file to
whichever user runs the init scripts and let only that user read the file.
So, which user runs the init scripts?
initscripts run as root. Do your mount commands work if you type them in
on the command line as root?
FWIW, I mount CIFS filesystems at home just using an entry in /etc/fstab
and the standard initscripts handle the mounting:
//BADBY/SoftLib /home/paul/smb/softlib cifs
uid=paul,gid=paul,user,credentials=/home/paul/.smbcredentials 0 0
$ ls -l /home/paul/.smbcredentials
-rw------- 1 paul paul 32 Jun 5 2004 /home/paul/.smbcredentials
Paul.
